Manhattan里的一道题，求教啊！

ffen

AgathaChristie's travels with her archaeologist husband inspired her to write severalmystery novels;travelers to Egypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for thehotel in one of Christie's most famous books.

A) Agatha Christie's travels with herarchaeologist husband inspired her to write several mystery novels
B) Agatha Christie used her travels with herarchaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels
C) Because her husband was an archaeologist,Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of hermystery novels
D) Together with her archaeologist husband, AgathaChristie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of her mysterynovels
E) Agatha Christie's travels with herarchaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels
答案是E，我选了A，非常不明白为什么A不对
请NN帮忙啊！谢谢~

AlohaDJ

A中第二个her，是代词宾格，不能指代名词所有格里's前的名词。而第一个her,是形容词性的物主代词，则可以指代's前的名词。

这个语法点在ManhattanSC里也有提到，整理如下：

1.Nouns in the possessive case (with s or s') are often poor antecedents. The Possessive Poison rule states that possessive nouns can serve as antecedents only to possessive pronouns(物主代词), not to subject(主格)or object(宾格) pronouns.
因为’s前的名词是adj属性，所以代词的主格或宾格不能指代’s部分’前面的名词，只有adj.性物主代词可以指代。
Eg. Several executives’ packages....后面出现them指代executives是不行的。

2.adj.性物主代词不能指代前面某个名词词组里作修饰成分的名词，因为作修饰成分的名词是adj.属性，不是noun属性，不能作为物主代词的先行词。
Wrong: Oil traders have profited handsomely from the recent rise in its price.
Right: Oil traders have profited handsomely from the recent rise in the price of oil.
The original sentence is incorrect because its has no antecedent. Oil is an adjective in the expression oil traders, and therefore cannot be the antecedent of its.

ffen

谢谢谢谢！非常的清楚呢~